Website Privacy Policy

Equal Approach Privacy Policy

In line with the General Data Protection Regulation, Equal Approach Limited is committed to providing clarity regarding the types of personal information we collect, how we use the information, who we share it with, and your data rights in terms of how your information is used, stored and shared.

This Privacy Policy explains how we embed this commitment in our business and describes the measures we take to protect the security of your information and how you can contact us to update your preferences and find out more about our privacy practices.

Personal Information That We May Request from You

We will collect personal information about you using a variety of methods, such as (but not limited to) through our Equal Approach website, through our Inclusive Talent Portal – Reach, social media channels, events, surveys, job applications, telephone screenings, interviews and subsequent online, telephone, email contact and also through our other Embedding Inclusion product services where data collection is required.

As part of providing our services, we may request the following types of personal information from you, but not limited to:

Employment history, education, qualifications, professional registrations and information about you provided in your CV or that you complete in an application form.

Details of your skills, competencies and capability.

Results of skills assessments,

Information about citizenship, visa status and right to work in the UK.

Results of criminal and other background checks.

NI number.

Date of birth.

Details provided relating to age, gender, ethnicity, disabilities / health related information as well as information relating to other protected characteristics as defined under the Equality Act 2010 which may be gathered to support diversity monitoring

Details of those you provide as emergency contacts.

Information provided about you in references.

Information you provide about family, friends or other people you would like us to contact.

PLEASE NOTE: by completing any Equal Approach registration / personal information documentation, you are giving consent for us to use, store and share your personal data for you. This could be for the purpose of sourcing suitable work for you, monitoring/managing your assignments or placements and/or if appropriate marketing relevant services that we are providing to you or your company. This is the legal basis on which we process your personal data and you can withdraw your consent at any time by emailing marketing@equalapproach.com. We will stop processing if we have no other legal basis or requirement to do so.

Where the personal data collected includes sensitive/special category data, we will obtain a separate, explicit consent from you for this, which may be withdrawn in the same way. Examples of special category data include, but are not limited to, information about your health, race, sexual orientation, criminal convictions etc.

Automated Information We May Collect from You

When you visit our website, we may collect certain information by automated means, such as using cookies, and web server logs. The information we may collect in this manner includes IP, unique device identifier, browser characteristics, device characteristics, operating system, language preferences, referring URLs, information on actions taken on our website, dates and times of visits to our website and other usage statistics.

Our websites use cookies to distinguish you from other users of our websites. They are widely used to make websites work, or work more efficiently, as well as to provide information to the operation of the site.

Equal Approach uses the following cookies and logging:

Cookies & Logs We Use

Why We Use Them

Google Analytics

These cookies are used to collect information about how users and visitors use our website and our blog. We use the information to compile reports and to help us improve the website.

Microsoft Azure

In order for Equal Approach to be fully compliant, we keep all activity logged from our web host, this only includes IP addresses and no other personal data. This is used to make sure that your experience on our website is safe and secure and ensure no data is put at risk.

We may obtain data (including but not limited to your browser information) through these automated collection methods as you click through various pages on our website. As required by law, we will obtain your consent before collecting personal data using cookies or similar automated means.

We may also use third-party apps, tools, plug-ins and widgets on our website and these may use automated means to collect information relating to how you interact with these features. Such information collected is subject to the privacy policies of those providers and to applicable law. Equal Approach Limited is not responsible for the practices of these providers.

We also may use the information in other ways for which we will request specific consent at or prior to the time of collection.

Additional for Recruitment – Temporary, Interim & Permanent

Assess your suitability as a candidate and validate your experience, competence, qualifications, registrations etc as required by the position for which you are applying.

Provide you with job opportunities and work.

Provide career advice.

Process payments to you and send you payslips where applicable.

Monitor and manage your performance and discipline as a temporary worker

Audit compliance with prevailing employment law and honour contractual agreements with our clients.

Send you information about vacancies, promotional material and other communications (e.g. invitations to participate in our surveys or events).

We may also use the personal data we hold, to take automated decisions about your suitability for a work role, applying for such a role and providing our services to you. In this event we will notify you in advance and provide the opportunity to discuss and review any outcome with a member of our personnel.

Your IP address may be partially disclosed (region only) to third-party analytics providers such Google Analytics to help us analyse the use of our website and track the effectiveness of our marketing activity and user experience.

Information We Share

We will only disclose personal information we collect about you to facilitate delivery of our services.

Where personal information is shared with a managed service provider or other 3rd party supplier, we do not authorise them to use or disclose your personal data except in the provision of the service that they have been engaged to supply or to comply with legislation.

Finally we may disclose your personal data to comply with any applicable law, in connection with an investigation of suspected or actual fraudulent activity or is based on a lawful disclosure request.

If we share your information with other countries outside of the EEA or Switzerland who have different legislation, we will protect your information in line with this privacy policy and prevailing UK legislation relating to data protection.

We will never:

Sell your personal data to a third party.

Share your personal data with a third party for marketing purposes without your consent.

How Long We Will Retain Your Personal Data

We will retain your personal information for a reasonable duration to provide you with our services and to comply with prevailing legislation and regulation as follows:

Type of Records

Statutory Retention Period

Statutory Authority

Accident book / accident records & reports

3 years from date of the last entry (or if the accident involves a child, until that person reaches the age of 21.

3 years after the end of the pay reference period following the one that the records cover.

National Minimum Wage Act 1998

Records relating to working time

2 years from the date on which they were made

The Working Time Regulations 1998 (SI 1998/1833).

For many types of HR records, there is no definitive retention period and we are entitled to decide how long to keep them. Equal Approach has based our records retention periods below on the time limits for potential UK tribunal or civil claims and guidance in the Conduct of Employment Agencies and Employment Businesses Regulations 2003. The UK Limitation Act 1980 contains a 6-year time limit for starting many legal proceedings, so where documents may be relevant to a contractual claim, we will keep these records for at least this period. Other records may be retained longer or permanently. These retention periods are in line with CIPD recommendations.

Type of Records

Minimum Retention Period

Actuarial valuation reports

Permanently

Application forms and interview notes (for unsuccessful candidates)

6-12 months.

Assessments under health and safety regulations and records of consultations with safety representatives and committees

Permanently

Inland Revenue/HMRC approvals

Permanently

Parental leave

5 years from birth/adoption of the child or 18 years if the child receives a disability allowance.

7 years after the date on which we last provide services to the associated applicant or client or 7 years after employment has ended.

We may hold data significantly longer if contractually required to do so, and for contract clients we will hold all data relating to service provided for a minimum of seven years after the contract expires. Where such records could be relevant to a claim for personal injury, we will retain them for a minimum of 21 years from contract expiry.

Redundancy details, calculations of payments, refunds, notification to the Secretary of State

6 years from the date of redundancy

Senior executives’ records (that is, those on a senior management team or their equivalents)

After these durations have elapsed, your personal data will be securely deleted or destroyed.

How We Protect Your Personal Information

We maintain administrative, technical and physical safeguards to protect the personal information you provide against accidental, unlawful or unauthorised destruction, loss, alteration, access, disclosure or use.

Your Rights & Choices

If you have any questions about the use of your personal information or would like to update your preferences, please contact us as specified below.

Your Right to Object

You have the right to ask us not to process your personal data if you do not believe we are permitted to do so, including for marketing purposes. Following such notification, we will stop processing your personal data unless there is a legal basis or requirement to do so.

Marketing

We will inform you (before collecting your data) if we intend to use your data for marketing purposes. We will only use your data for this if you have agreed in advance.

Correction of Information

If you notify us that the personal data we hold is complete or inaccurate we will correct or complete the information as soon as possible.

Deletion of Information

You have the right to request that your personal data be deleted; including if we no longer need it for the purpose we collected it, or you withdraw your consent.

Following such a request we will erase your personal data without undue delay unless continued retention is necessary and permitted by law. If we made the personal data public, we will take reasonable steps to inform other data controllers processing about your erasure request.

Restriction on Processing

You have the right to request that we stop processing your personal data, but hold it for you, in the event the personal data we hold is inaccurate, the processing is unlawful or we no longer need the personal data. Once the processing is restricted, we will only continue to process your personal data if you consent or we have another legal basis for doing so.

Access to Information

You have the right to access information held about you and any access request will usually be free of charge and responded to within 30 days. We will endeavor to provide information in a format requested, but we may charge you a reasonable fee for additional copies.

Data Portability

You have the right to receive a copy of your personal data which you gave to us. The copy will be provided in a commonly used and machine-readable format. You can also have it transmitted directly from us to another data controller, where technically possible.

Complaints Procedure

To contact us directly about a general enquiry, you can use either of the following email addresses:

If we fail to respond to your Subject Access Request (SAR) within 30 days of receipt or you wish to make a complaint relating to our response to your SAR or any other data rights request, you should initially contact:

Ben Runcorn, Data Management Contact

Equal Approach Limited,

6 Barberry Court,

Callister Way,

Burton upon Trent

DE14 2UE

We will aim to acknowledge a complaint within 24 hours an Investigation will commence immediately with an assessment of the situation and contact with all individuals involved.

Where appropriate, internal interviews will be held as soon as possible.

In every case we will take all reasonable and practicable steps to resolve the complaint within 15 working days of its receipt unless the nature of the complaint requires additional investigation or action by an appropriate third party in which case the complaint will be resolved as soon as possible thereafter.

During the complaints resolution process we will ensure that you are kept abreast of progress in resolving the complaint.

We maintain a written log of all complaints which includes your name and contact details, nature of the complaint, actions taken to resolve it and any changes to procedures to prevent recurrence.

Complaints Escalation

If the Data Management Contact cannot resolve the problem or if you are dissatisfied with any aspect of the handling of your complaint, you should contact our Managing Director, outlining the details in full to:

Julie Patrick, Managing Director

Equal Approach Limited,

6 Barberry Court,

Callister Way,

Burton upon Trent.

DE14 2UE

You also have the right to complain to the Information Commissioner’s Office if you believe that we have not complied with the above policy or the law pertaining to your personal information on the following number: 0303 123 1113.

Privacy Settings

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Google Analytics & Tags

Equal Approach uses Google Analytics to help improve your experience on our platform, and also provide our employers, and partners valuable insight into activity within jobs and the site as a whole, to see how we can improve them. Our Google Analytics is set up as being anonymous, meaning that no data can be tracked to your exact location or IP address, we only collect regional data.

If you would like to find out more please read our privacy policy or contact us.